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Volume 70 (2020): Edition 3 (September 2020)
Acta Pharmaceutica
Stability study of thymoquinone, carvacrol and thymol using HPLC-UV and LC-ESI-MS
Rabab M. Soliman,
Randa A. Abdel Salam,
Basma G. Eid,
Ahdab Khayyat,
Thikryat Neamatallah,
Mostafa K. Mesbah et
Ghada M. Hadad
Publié en ligne: 17 Feb 2020
Volume & Edition: Volume 70 (2020) - Edition 3 (September 2020)
Accepté: 30 Sep 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acph-2020-0028 © 2020 Rabab M. Soliman et al., published by SciendoThis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
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A station on Wuhan's newly-completed subway Line 2 has been named for Zhou Hei Ya, a chain of stores selling spicy duck snacks.
The company paid a total of 5 million yuan (US$803,000) in December of last year, winning the rights to the station name for six years.
Naming rights to seven out of a total 21 stations in Wuhan's subway network were sold to the highest bidder. Other sponsors include hospitals and real estate developers, according to the Shanghai Daily.
Wuhan's government raised a total of 27.75 million yuan in the December auction.
Residents of the Hubei capital and netizens across China have expressed dismay over the move.
Not all residents are against the name. Cai Yang, a student at Wuhan University, said he supported the decision.
"Zhouheiya is a famous snack brand and makes people think of Wuhan, so I'm OK with it," he said.
Wuhan is not alone in turning to corporate sponsors to raise funds for subway construction. At least three other major cities have also sold naming rights to station names.


HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. Despite an extensive search, John Lee, 24, and Shao Moua, 20 are still missing.
Four men got caught in a rip current Saturday afternoon.
One of those swimmers was able to swim ashore and lifeguards rescued another one.
One of the survivors said they were taken off guard by the strength of the rip current.
"The wave was pretty strong, it had a strong current and I guess that's what pulled us into the ocean. We're not really experienced swimmers at all," said Sai Yaag, a rescued swimmer.
All the swimmers were part of an evangelical church group from Banning. They were in Huntington Beach for a wedding.


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Home > NEW > Nate Diaz challenges The Rock to be his next opponent
Nate Diaz challenges The Rock to be his next opponent
Nate Diaz hasn't lost any of his ambition despite leaving the UFC, and has named the only opponent that could draw him back out.
Diaz signed off from the promotion with a win by submission over Tony Ferguson, after his intended opponent Khamzat Chimaev missed weight.
Nate Diaz bids farewell to UFC with guillotine finish of Tony Ferguson
Diaz has since launched his own promotion, 'Real Fight Inc', but the Californian has identified one opponent that he'd return to fighting for.
"I'm only going to fight The Rock otherwise I'm good," Diaz tweeted.
Diaz to fight Jake Paul?
Diaz had been linked to fight Jake Paul after the YouTuber has switched to MMA following his boxing career.
"These shoes f****** suck!" Diaz raged in an ESPN interview footwear endorsed by Johnson.
"Look at these shoes. They made me put this s*** on. F*** these shoes!"
'Get out for a minute'
September's not even finished yet but Johnson isn't the only former fighter that Diaz has called out.
"I want to get out of the UFC for a minute," he said after beating Ferguson. "And show all these UFC fighters how to take over and own up another sport how you're supposed to do it. Cause Conor McGregor didn't know how to do it.
"None of these other fighters know how to do it. So I'm going to go out there and I'm going take over another profession and become the best at that.
"Show everybody I'm the best at that and then I'm going to be right the f*** back here to get a motherf****** UFC title. The best title in the world."


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Here's an obscure one: Beyond the Pole and Other Weird Fantasies, by Philip Fisher
Black Dog Books, 2013
"Damn peculiar -- cursed if it ain't!"
There are eleven very weird stories by Philip M. Fisher (1891-1973) in this book. I had never heard of Fisher before I stumbled across this title (and I still don't remember how I came to it), but now I think I'll have to find more of his work.
Included in this particular volume are (* denotes a favorite):
Introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz
"The Recent Demise of Professor Manried" (1917)
-- A well-loved friend of the late scientist Professor Manried feels he needs to speak out and tell the truth about the real cause of Manried's death, because the papers are labeling it a suicide and he knows that is not really how things went down.
"Queer" (1918) *
-- A former Indy 500 driver, now in the Army, is called upon to transport an Army captain to Croy in the middle of a German shelling attack. He's crossed the road fifty times "and never a scratch." He's not about to break his record. This one is positively eerie.
"The Strange Case of Lemuel Jenkins" (1919)
--Another science-based story. Here a group of friends decides to play a cruel joke on one of their number, with tragic consequences.
"The Ship of Silent Men" (1920) *
-- One of my personal favorites in this volume. A cargo ship named the Lanoa finds itself in the middle of a strange atmospheric phenomenon. While they're busy trying to figure things out, another ship, the Karnak, sends out an SOS. Since the Lanoa is the closest ship in the region, they attempt to make rescue. When they arrive, they quickly discover the crew hard at work as if nothing had happened. A closer look, however, reveals that all is not exactly well.
"The Master of Black" (1920)
-- Of all of the stories in this book, this is probably the least satisfying for modern readers. The basic concept is good, about a man who, through his work in science, is able to plunge the world into total darkness that absolutely no light can penetrate. The telling is long and wordy, although the basic story is pretty good.
"The Man Who Put Himself Into His Work" (1920) [originally titled "Into His Work"]
-- A typing teacher really wants to give his all to his students -- and eventually succeeds. This one is weird enough, but not really very satisfying.
"Worlds Within Worlds" (1922)
-- An overworked, overtired scientist has a sort of breakdown and his doctors want to try a very risky cure using potent drug cocktail combinations. He wakes up refreshed, but things are very different when he does. Actually, this is a very cool story with a great premise, but it's just so overwordy with a lot of exposition that made my interest wane. The underlying concept is awesome -- it's the delivery that doesn't exactly translate to the 21st century.
"Lights" (1922)
-- Lt. junior grade Warren Carey is being court-martialed for his role in the wreck of his captain's ship on the Yangtze River. Is he guilty as charged, or is it, like he says, that maybe he was "befogged in vibrations of a different plane?"
"The Devil of the Western Sea" (1922) *
-- Among my favorites in this book, "The Devil of the Western Sea" sort of read like a cross between those old 1980s movies "The Final Countdown" and "The Philadelphia Experiment." New technology is going live on a Navy ship and it looks like it's working just fine. Then, when the inventor steps in, something goes just a little awry. I really liked this one, in spite all of the scientific jargon.
from http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/04/12/the-final-countdown
"Fungus Isle" (1923) *
-- As I was researching this author and his writing, I came across a website devoted to William Hope Hodgson that pretty much says that Fisher's story "clearly owes so much to Hodgson as to come close to intellectual property theft." The blog author also writes that "Fungus Isle" is "a mash-up of "The Voice in the Night" and The Boats of the Glen Carrig" here to a degree that is virtually impossible to ignore." I haven't read much Hodgson (but will now), so I can't say. All I know is that this is one very weird tale that made me want to go take a shower. After mining for fire opals that they hope will bring them riches, one group within the party sneaks away by boat. Going after them, the others encounter a fierce typhoon, landing them on a strange island the likes of which they've never seen before. Trying not to starve or die of thirst, they explore and run into a nightmare. Whether it's lifted from Hodgson or no, it's still a fine tale.
"Beyond the Pole"(1924),
-- A secret government expedition aboard a repurposed enemy Zeppelin that actually never launched finds a crew heading for the North Pole. The brother of the skipper is left behind because of a broken leg and is extremely disappointed not to be going on this momentous expedition. The ship sails away, and it doesn't take long before all contact is lost. When the brother discovers why, his disappointment turns to utter horror. Here's another one where the government is warned against sending help or repeating the experiment, yet fails to listen. How typical, I guess, even in 1924.
These eleven tales are by no means the sum total of Fisher's works. On another website I found while researching Fisher, I discovered another twelve titles which, along with some of the work in this book, seem to have been anthologized in a volume called Strange Ocean Vistas of Philip M. Fisher -- Lost Treasures From the Pulps #12. I wrote the author about the book ( it doesn't seem to have been published) so I'll see what happens. Anyway, back to Beyond the Pole.
There are some very distinct ideas running through these stories. First, with the exception of "Queer," "Lights," and "Fungus Isle," his tales run more on the science fiction side of weird, focusing mainly on different forms and uses of physics. The author seems to be fascinated by the effects of "vibrations" and electricity. Secondly, a lot of his tales have to do with the sea (as Dziemianowicz states in his introduction), likely based on the author's time in the Navy. Dziemianowicz notes that "these stories present the sea as a vast and alien world, where marvels and horrors await the vulnerable humans who sail upon it." He includes "Beyond the Pole" in this particular set of stories -- even though it takes place in a dirigible, it's still a voyage.
Beyond the Pole is basically a better-than-good, not great collection of strange tales. Some you have to use a mental machete to hack through the scientific jargon, making them a bit difficult and tedious in the reading, but even those are underpinned by cool storylines. It seems like the author wanted to make sure that his readers understood the science, so he added long sections of exposition to make everything clear. When authors do that sort of thing, though, it has the opposite effect on me -- I just get bored. And that's my biggest critique of this book -- the author's style. It's not like that in all of the stories, just most of the ones that deal with the science behind whatever's going on at the moment. Some people may like that -- I am not a science person so it became monotonous after a while. Other than that, I'm very happy to have found this guy -- I love weird, I love pulp, science fiction is okay and when you throw all of that in the mix, that's what you get in this volume.
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Arkangelrocks February 16, 2020 at 2:02 PM
Nancy: Many thanks for sharing your thoughts on this author. I have never heard of him, but am now hot on his tail. It sounds like a mix of post-Doyle, just-post-Hodgson, pre-Klarkash-Ton, etc.; and, in his technical detail, way too much like Verne. As a child, I greatly enjoyed 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. As an adult, I could barely force my way through a handful of pages, as the novel is an endless description of different ocean fauna, and seemingly little else. Somewhere in there there's a ripping great story hiding that you have to see the Disney movie to actually access. (I encountered the same problem with Mary Shelley's novel The Last Man: an endless cataloging of flowers and other plants, not much story going on in that novel; but she made up for it with the excellent Frankenstein.)
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Toronto Film Society presented Paths of Glory (1957) on Monday, November 12, 1979 in a double bill with Comanche Station as part of the Season 32 Monday Evening Film Buff Series, Programme 3.
Presented by Bryna Productions-released by United Artists. Producer: James B. Harris. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Asst. Director: Ludwig Reiber. Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham & Jim Thompson, based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb. Photography: George Krause. Editor: Eva Kroll. Music: Gerald Fried. Sound: M. Muller.
Cast: Kirk Douglas (Colonel Dax), Ralph Meeker (Corporal Paris), Adolph Menjou (General Broulard), George Macready (General Mireu), Wayne Morris (Lieut. Roget), Richard Anderson (Major St-Auban), Joseph Turkel (Private Arnaud), Timothy Carey (Private Ferol), Peter Capell (Colonel Judge), Susanne Christian (German Girl), Bert Freed (Sergeant Boulanger), Emile Meyer (Priest), John Stein (Private Meyer), Frederic Bell (Shell-shocked soldier), Harold Benedict (Captain Nichols).
Two years ago TFS showed Kubrick's The Killing (1956). It was his third film, but his first to have any studio backing. It was a slick, at times brilliantly executed crime story which stylistically showed various documentary-like characteristics, but which essentially remains within its genre. It seems as if it was primarily made to show the studios that Kubrick could be trusted to make a picture on budget. Apart from the financial returns which were small, it attracted the attention of Kirk Douglas. This turned out to be crucial to Kubrick's fourth film project, Paths of Glory (1957), and indeed to his film career thereafter.
At that point in Kirk Douglas' career, he had a policy of counterbalancing the entertainment films in which he appeared and for which he was well paid with films that aspired to artistic merit beyond simply entertaining. Cobb's novel, based on a World War I incident, had been around since 1935, but no one had undertaken to produce it as a film. While the novel had a potent anti-war message, it had no romantic interest, no comedy relief, and a "real downer" of an ending. Even at this point it was not really a studio film, it simply got $900,000 backing from a studio,, primarily on the strength of Douglas' appearance in it for which he received $350,000 of the $900,000 budget. It was hoped that Douglas' presence would offset the film's otherwise limited box office potential. It didn't. That the film was released on Christmas day could not have helped it at the box office. Even though initially Paths of Glory did not show a profit, the film gradually came to be recognized as one of a small number of films to transcend time and achieve greatness.
Often when a screenplay is credited to many people, this seems to be a way of diffusing guilt and spreading responsibility for an inferior product. This is not the case with Paths of Glory. The screenplay is faithful to the book while not being a direct copy of it. In fact the material has been structurally modified to completely refocus the narrative and the dialogue has acquired a literary quality for which one may search the novel in vain. This reworking of the novel corresponds to the considerations elaborated by Kubrick with reference to his work with Nabokov in adapting Lolita (1962). Kubrick said then that it is the feelings, emotions and thoughts that have to be dramatised, not a particular writer's style. "The dramatising has to find a style of its own" (Hollywood Directors, 1977, p.307). In the case of Paths of Glory that style is one which emerges from the cinematography with its use of long tracking shots; from the crisp editing with its sharp cuts which emphasize the parsimony of the narrative; and from the use of locations in such a way that meticulous set design could not improve. Kubrick, originally a photographer, uses his photographer's eye.
Kubrick makes high demands on his audience. While this quality rewards multiple viewings, some first time viewers may be confused. Thus, a brief synopsis:
In 1916 the French High Command decides an attack must be mounted against "The Ant Hill", an almost impregnable German strongpoint. General Mireu orders Colonel Dax to lead the attack, but Dax's men, already hard pressed and exhausted, advance only a few yards. Seeing that some French troops are still in their trenches, Mireau orders his artillery commander to fire on them and becomes hysterical when the officer refuses. Mireau then persuades Broulard that discipline demands a sacrifice: three men arbitrarily chosen from Dax's regiment are court-martialled for cowardice. Dax is not allowed to present the case of his men fairly. Subsequently Mireau must face an inquiry and Dax is offered his job. Dax realises that he alone sees the issue as a moral one. (Monthly Film Bulletin, No. 289, vol. 25, p. 16).
While Paths of Glory has marked anti-war qualities, it transcends the dimensions of propaganda and the easy commentary on the worlds of the leaders and the lead to capture the ultimate quality of evil, which is its banality. General Mireau is not what you usually expect of an evil man. There is some ruthlessness beneath Broulard's manners but there is in his decisions the same mediocrity one finds in the inept and cowardly Lieut. Roget, simply at a higher level of command. They are petty men operating within a bureaucracy which they do not question. The anti-military and anti-war message of Paths of Glory transcends the national garb it wears.
References: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick, Norman Kagan, 1972. Directors and Directions, J.R. Taylor, 1975. Film Culture, Feb/58, p.15-16. The Films of the Fifties, D. Brode, 1976. The Great Movies, W. Bayer, 1973. New York Times Film Reviews, Dec. 26/57.
Notes by Marcia Gillespie and Lloyd Gordon Ward
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Roche Constructors buys 80-plus bikes for Madison Elementary School students with good attendance
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Crystal Valdez, 8, wheels her bike out of the gym during a special assembly for students with good attendance on Wednesday at Madison Elementary School, 500 24th Ave. in Greeley. The bikes were donated to the school by the Roche family. (Joshua Polson/jpolson@greeleytribune.com)
Wednesday afternoon, 10-year-old Isaac Quintanilla got the first bike he's ever owned, black and white matte frame, cobalt blue trim on the tires with brakes and steel riding pegs of the same color. Most important is what it lacked: training wheels. He didn't want to take any shortcuts in learning how to balance.
Other improvements at Madison
Roche Constructors, 361 71st Ave. Greeley, which provided bikes to students who had missed no more than two days of school, also is helping Madison Elementary, 500 24th Ave. in Greeley, build a new playground for next school year. Principal Val Smythe said they put out a bid to remove their old playground and got a $21,000 estimate; Roche offered to remove it for free.
"When I was little, I dreamed about having a bike," Quintanilla said.
But until Wednesday, he never had one.
That's because Wednesday was the last day of school at Madison Elementary, and Roche Constructors bought a bike for every student who missed two or fewer days of school. Quintanilla, a fourth-grader, was one of 88 kids who got one. The students assembled in Madison's muggy, carpeted gym, with the bikes lined up against the back wall. The kids packed in, sat cross-legged on the floor, and parents who could attend filed in and stood around the outside of the room. The students came up one-by-one to get their bikes, each of which had a fake license plate with a kid's name on it.
Jaquelyn Salmeron Castro, 9, smiles as she puts on a unicorn helmet Wednesday at Madison Elementary School, 500 24th Ave. in Greeley. Students were given helmets along with bikes during a special assembly for those with good attendance. (Joshua Polson/jpolson@greeleytribune.com)
There were bikes with Spider-Man designs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Barbie, Hello Kitty and all kinds of colorful paints. Most had training wheels. Some, like Quintanilla's, didn't. And like Quintanilla, many of the kids were getting their own bike for the first time.
Darya Baum-Flint, 7, rides her new bike down the sidewalk Wednesday at Madison Elementary School, 500 24th Ave. in Greeley. (Joshua Polson/jpolson@greeleytribune.com)
"Not everybody can afford one," said Mariah Baum, whose daughter, Darya, got a bike. "They're not unaffordable, but they're not cheap."
At a school like Madison, where 82 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, such generosity can make a huge difference.
"Our kids deserve these kinds of things," said Val Smythe, Madison's principal.
The program arose because of coffee. Smythe and Tom Roche, the president and CEO of Roche Constructors, regularly ended up in the same Starbucks line at the same time. They'd talk about all kinds of issues related to education. One day before this school year, Roche asked Smythe how her school's attendance was. Not good, she replied. Roche posited incentivizing the students with bikes. He wanted a more attainable goal than 100 percent attendance, so Smyth and Roche settled on the maximum of two missed days.
They instituted the program for this year. All year long, bikes hung in Madison's cafeteria along with the criteria students had to meet to get one. Quintanilla said that reward spurred him to his impeccable attendance. "I had really good attendance when I was a kid," said Baum, the mother whose daughter received a bike. "But I was never really rewarded for it. All I got was a piece of paper I knew I was going to lose. And I did."
These kids won't lose their bikes, though. After they picked them up in the gym, they went outside, where volunteers fitted them with helmets. Then they rode around the building, stowed them in the music room and headed back into the assembly, pining for it to end so they could take another spin. When Quintanilla was asked what the most exciting part of this was, he smiled.
"Riding," he said.
— Tommy Wood covers education and Evans city government for The Tribune. You can reach him at (970) 392-4470, twood@greeleytribune.com or on Twitter @woodstein72.
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In 1975, the New York Post published what arguably was one of the more pointed and memorable headlines in that city's storied history: FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.
President Gerald Ford said there would be no federal financial bailout. The nation's largest city had to figure things out on its own. It did and without resorting to bankruptcy.
Bankruptcy is very much in play in Stockton. There will be no bailout from Washington. There will be no bailout from Sacramento. In fact, part of the city's financial woes - albeit a small part - can be blamed on the state swooping in and glomming onto city funds.
That leaves Stockton on its own to figure things out and it must do it while much of the nation, even the world, is watching.
Reporters from around the country and several nations have been prowling the city in recent weeks - and calling City Hall - trying to figure out what's going on. Or, more precisely, what went wrong and what the city will do next.
As is widely reported, if Stockton trots into the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Sacramento this week it will be the largest municipal failure in the nation's history. Not that other government bodies haven't been there before.
Vallejo, about a third Stockton's size, did it in 2008 and, by some accounts, emerged stronger for it. Orange County, California's third largest in terms of population, did it in 1994 when its multibillion bond portfolio went south. Like Vallejo, that south state bastion of conservatism emerged stronger, and we would hope wiser.
Now all eyes are on Stockton that as early as today could send its attorneys to bankruptcy court.
Over the years the city has endured more than its share of bad press. We're the nation's "most miserable city" Forbes magazine told its readers a couple of years ago. We routinely find ourselves on the top 10 list of most violent of the nation's cities (out-of-town news outlets are fond of pointing that out without giving the ranking of their own cities, as we saw just last week). The city gets it for its dropout rate, its foreclosure rate, its literacy rate, its asthma rate, its car theft rate.
To read all this, you'd conclude Forbes is right. What we'll read in the days ahead likely will only reinforce that view.
The problem isn't that the reporters have the story wrong - a Stockton bankruptcy will be a stain on the city and cause no small amount of chaos in City Hall. No, the problem is generalizing from the specific. All the reporters who parachute in on Stockton's financial woes are here to cover that story and that story alone.
Stockton residents - those of us who work here, own homes here, send our children to its schools, attend the city's churches, its festivals, museums and entertainment venues, who enjoy its nearby waterways - know that bankruptcy isn't the only thing going on in this city. It's only part of our story. Bankruptcy is only a small patch in the city quilt.
Eventually, we'll get this behind us. And perhaps - possibly in The Record - one day there will be this headline: STOCKTON TO ITS DETRACTORS: DROP DEAD.


14 February 2019 – Yale-NUS College (Yale-NUS) and NUS Computing have jointly announced a new concurrent degree programme designed for liberal arts students planning to pursue careers in computing. The programme will shape the next generation of innovative and effective computing professionals who are able to tackle complex computing problems within a global context.
Have you ever struggled to learn a new language? Maybe you should spend less time trying to speak it and start singing instead!
Blockchain company Ripple announced that it will be partnering with NUS Computing in its University Blockchain Research Initiative to accelerate academic research, technical development and innovation in the blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments space.
7 February 2019 – Computer Science PhD student Vanchinathan Venkatramani and undergraduate students Ranald Lam, Gan Wei Liang, Nguyen Tien Trung Kien, and Lim Hui Qi won four different awards at the inaugural NUS Student Life Awards 2019 on 26 January.
31 January 2019 – Associate Professor Ilya Sergey and his collaborator, University of California San Diego Assistant Professor Nadia Polikarpova, received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 46th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2019), held from 13 to 19 January 2019 in Cascais, Portugal.
29 January 2019 – Associate Professor Zhao Shengdong and his former PhD student Foong Pin Sym won the Merit award at the Agency for Integrated Care's Community Care Excellence Award. The award was given out at the Quality & Productivity Festival 2018, which was held on 19 September 2018 in Singapore.
With technology giants like Facebook and Google constantly gathering valuable information about us, walking around with a smartphone can be akin to carrying a tracking device 24/7. The irony is that while most of us say that we care deeply about data protection, we continue to give our information away. Dean of NUS Computing Professor Mohan Kankanhalli shares his research on data privacy and how his new research centre, N-CRiPT, aims to protect the privacy of individuals as Singapore transforms into a Smart Nation.
To help people with pre-diabetes or a high risk of diabetes to better manage their condition, NUS Computing Distinguished Professor Ooi Beng Chin and his team developed an AI enabled mobile application the JurongHealth Food Log (JHFoodLg) app, that analyses food photos taken by the user and displays the dish's nutritional values.
24 January 2019 – Assistant Professor Arnab Bhattacharyya received the prestigious Amazon Research Award (ARA) on 16 January 2019. The ARA programme funds projects to faculty members at academic institutions worldwide for research in data science and machine learning.
22 January 2019 – Associate Professor Roger Zimmermann, NUS Computing alumni Dr Yin Yifang and Dr Rajiv Ratn Shah, and their collaborators, won the Best Poster Runner-Up Award at the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM). The conference was held in Taichung, Taiwan, from 10 to 12 December 2018.
18 January 2019 – The NUS Centre for Research in Privacy Technologies (N-CRiPT) was launched on 15 January 2019 at the centre's Inaugural Workshop. The new S$12 million research centre, funded by the National Research Foundation, will carry out leading research to design and develop privacy-preserving technologies to build a privacy aware Smart Nation for Singapore.
4 January 2019 – Dean's Chair Associate Professor Seth Gilbert and his collaborators received the Best Paper Award at the 22nd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS) on 19 December 2018.
In 2019, experts predict that technological areas in artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) will continue to see accelerated growth in both research and industry. Senior Lecturer Dr Colin Tan gave his insights on the use of autonomous vehicles in logistics and delivery services.
In a special episode of Why IT Matters, Assistant Professor Harold Soh shares how artificial intelligence can be used to create art and about his recent work in creating new art pieces from the dataset of abstract art paintings.
17 December 2018 – NUS Computing teams performed well at the recent International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Singapore regional contest held from 12 to 14 December. The home teams took up half of the top ten rankings and swept up seven of the 11 "First to Solve" prizes given out at the closing ceremony held at the NUS Kent Ridge campus.
Mr Benjamin Yap, an NUS Computer Engineering graduate, said that the basic grounding he received in areas such as writing good code and adopting good documentation habits was invaluable as he stepped into the working arena. Universities here, on their part, are not ignorant of the changing needs these students face as the push for AI and ML talent gathers pace. NUS Computing's Vice Dean Professor Sanjay Jain told Channel NewsAsia that all its undergrads are required to read some General Education modules in humanities and social sciences. He also pointed out that all School of Computing undergraduates are required to complete a six-month internship programme, but are also open to taking up opportunities to work with industry players. One example is the Orbital Programme, which he said is a "self-directed, independent work course" allowing students to pick up software development skills and work with industry mentors to develop their projects.
23 November 2018 – NUS Computing students performed well at two 2018 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) regional contests held this month. Team Pandamiao won first place in the Nakhon Pathom regional contest, while Team Send Bobs to Alice and Team 3Sophomores won third place in the Nakhon Pathom and Jakarta regional contests, respectively.
NUS Computing alumnus Loi Luu was selected as one of 10 Innovators Under 35 from the Asia Pacific region by the MIT Technology Review. Loi graduated with a PhD in Computer Science and is currently the CEO and co-founder of Kyber Network, a on-chain liquidity protocol allows decentralized token swaps to be integrated into any application. He received the honour for building a more secure, scalable and usable public blockchain infrastructure.


A big screen TV is the focal point of any home theatre. If you're setting up or upgrading your home theatre and you've decided bigger is definitely better, you're going to love how a 65 inch 4K TV looks on your wall. Want to go even bigger? Take a look at the features on large screen TVs.
What's the best distance to view your 65 inch 4k TV?
Whether you choose a 60 or 65 inch OLED TV or have a larger model in mind, you'll need to accommodate the large screen in your home theatre and plan for how you'll comfortably view a TV this large.
One of the general guidelines for placement is to sit at a distance that's 1.5 to 2.5 times your diagonal screen measurement. For example, the dimensions of a 65 inch TV mean you'll place your seating 8.13' to 13.5' or 2.5 m to 4.1 m from the screen.
You can easily mount a TV this size on your wall using a wall mount. The best recommendations for mounting a television this size are to mount it 42 inches on-center of your wall. That spot will allow you have your TV mounted well off the floor, but still keep it at eye level if you're sitting on your couch.
Many TV stands will keep your TV at the perfect viewing level, and you get the added bonus of having extra storage for your power bars, speakers, and HDMI cables. You can even find a TV stand with fireplace so you can cozy up on winter nights.
60 to 69 inch TVs are some of the largest TVs you can add to your home theatre; however, just because you want a large TV doesn't mean you have to sacrifice a pixel of quality.
The first feature you'll need to decide on is what picture quality you'll need. Screen resolution on this size of TV is similar to smaller TVs, and you can choose Full HD displays with 1920 x 1080 pixels or Ultra-high definition (UHD) displays that have 3840 x 2160 pixels. If you've never heard of UHD, it's also known as 4K.
When you choose a 60 to 69 inch 4K TV you get gorgeous picture quality, 4 times better resolution than Full HD, and a TV that has the power to upscale whatever you watch. UHD 4K TVs also have High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology to give you a brighter picture, colours that explode on the screen, and imagery that's as realistic as possible.
You'll also need to decide if you'd like your new TV with LED or OLED. LED uses a backlighting system to give you a crystal-clear picture in bright daytime or dim light conditions. OLED TVs have contrast that's second to none, clarity you have to see to believe, and wide viewing angles so everyone who watches has the best seat in the house.
Do you want a Smart TV?
A 60 to 69 inch 4K TV has all of the ports to plug in your sound bars, speakers, and HDMI cables for access to set top boxes and streaming devices. If you'd like to keep your home theatre simple, you can choose a Smart TV 4K that streams Netflix, Youtube, and lets you hit the Web, all on your big screen.
The price range of 60 to 69 inch TVs varies depending on picture quality and features. For example, can find the best deal on 65 inch TVs in price ranges as low as $500. If you choose a 65 inch OLED TV with Picture-on-Wall design and built-in speaker system, you could invest as much as $10,000.


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22 Britannia Road: A Novel
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A tour de force that echoes modern classics like Suite Francaise and The Postmistress.
"Housekeeper or housewife?" the soldier asks Silvana as she and eight- year-old Aurek board the ship that will take them from Poland to England at the end of World War II. There her husband, Janusz, is already waiting for them at the little house at 22 Britannia Road. But the war has changed them all so utterly that they'll barely recognize one another when they are reunited. "Survivor," she answers.
Silvana and Aurek spent the war hiding in the forests of Poland. Wild, almost feral Aurek doesn't know how to tie his own shoes or sleep in a bed. Janusz is an Englishman now-determined to forget Poland, forget his own ghosts from the way, and begin a new life as a proper English family. But for Silvana, who cannot escape the painful memory of a shattering wartime act, forgetting is not a possibility.
One of the most searing debuts to come along in years, 22 Britannia RoadAmazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011: By the end of World War II, Silvana is a ghost of the wife Janusz once had. She and their 7-year-old son Aurek travel from Poland to England to reunite their family--a family that has been separated for 6 years. That's where 22 Britannia Road, Amanda Hodgkinson's stunning debut novel, begins. As the past unfolds from multiple points of view, it becomes clear that despite their determination to make a fresh start, the hidden secrets of the past threaten to destroy Silvana and Janusz's dreams of becoming a family once again. The irreversible events that passed during their years of separation still linger, including the horrors of war, Janusz's betrayal by a love affair with another woman, and the devastating secret that Silvana will do anything to conceal. Hodgkinson's poetic voice is impossible to forget, and the shocking and hopeful ending of her remarkable historical novel will leave readers reeling--and satisfied. --Miriam Landis
Author Q&A with Amanda Hodgkinson
Q: What drew you to this particular story of Polish World War II survivors living in England?
A: As a child, I was always fascinated when the adults around me talked about World War II. These were older family members who had lived through it and I would try to stay quiet so I could listen without being discovered. Their voices changed to lower registers, there were weighted silences in the conversations, sad looks, secretive whispering and then somebody would notice me and send me out to play, their voice swinging up a register to convey a gaiety they probably didn't feel. I would go to bed at night, sick at heart thinking about these stories, and wonder how the world ever managed to get back to the normal after that war.
Looking back, I think I never stopped wondering. Years later, I was standing in my kitchen and heard a Russian woman on the radio, describing her experiences of being a child during the war. "We were so hungry," she said, "we ate the bark of the silver birch trees." An image came to me, so clear and strong, it was more like a memory than an act of my imagination. I wrote down what I saw; a young woman in a silver birch forest. I had begun to write my novel.
Q: From Silvana's exile in the forest to the petrol rations in post-war Ipswich, you paint a vivid picture of the novel's historical settings and events. What sort of research did you do to get the details right?
A: I balanced my own imaginative input with research. I read social history books on the war and the postwar period, including a lot of oral histories on Polish immigrant experiences. I also read wonderful Polish poets like Zbigniew Herbert and Tadeusz Rózewicz, among others. I studied Polish fairytales and classic Polish literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. I discovered tango music had been very popular in Poland during the thirties, so I listened to some fabulous clips on YouTube and imagined myself there, in the 1930s, dancing at a club in Warsaw, just like Hanka, one of the characters in the book tells Silvana about. I immersed myself in books, music and literature and then I put aside all research and let my imagination go to work. Whenever I was unsure about a scene, I turned to my own thoughts and feelings, relying on my ability to imagine a moment and on my empathy for the characters, rather than history books, and I think this approach helped me really understand my characters and the time.
Q: What does the title, the address of the home Janusz chooses for his reunited family, represent to you symbolically? Why that particular address?
A: I wanted a very ordinary address. A typical English home. You can find a Britannia Road in most English towns and there is no mistaking the pronounced sense of place in this address. Janusz wants what the address offers. A new life and a new country. Ironically, this address, with its connotations of national identity and pride, also serves to highlight the sense of displacement Janusz, Silvana and Aurek, as an immigrant family, must have felt in a small town in Britain. Another reason I used an address was to show how important home was to the characters. For me, the novel is about finding a home, physically, psychologically and metaphorically. Home is a small word that holds within itself complex meanings. Change one letter and you have the word hope. And Janusz, Silvana and Aurek hope to make a home together.
Q: A powerful theme in this book is the pain of survival—even Janusz, who had a relatively easy escape from Poland, suffers from having outlived Hélène and other loved ones. What personal discoveries did you make about this theme while writing the book?
A: Writing the book and researching it made me very aware of how people are still suffering under wars. The mass movement of displaced people around the world continues and the number of children who are orphaned and families disrupted and broken by war does not diminish.
Q: You do an exceptional job capturing the psyche of young Aurek, who has clearly been traumatized by his experiences. Did you draw from case studies of children with similar experiences, or did you find your way to this character instinctually?
A: I wrote Aurek very instinctively. I felt I knew the boy from the moment I first wrote a small, tentative description of him, crouching in the back garden at 22 Britannia Road. I read Through The Eyes of the Innocents: Children Witness World War II by Emmy E Werner, which conveys the heartbreaking experiences of children, and that fed my own understanding of what Aurek might have been through but really, when I was writing Aurek, I found I could connect with him best on an emotional level. So I wrote what he felt. I tried to go beyond language with him and bring out his primitive sense of survival, his desire to feel loved and his need to love others.
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Upon the capital increase, the current major shareholders of Blue Quest include Tatsuya Asakawa (President & CEO), Striders, and SMBC Venture Capital.
Blue Quest has been established since July, 2013 by splitting from WillArk Company Limited ("WillArk") in order to concentrate on pursuing the business of publishing overseas popular online games for PCs and smart phones, fully utilizing our expertise in game content localization and game distribution.
While WillArk had attained some successes in developing and publishing mobile games including "Goddess Frontier", we decided to split the company and establish Blue Quest to restructure our business portfolio. The purpose of the restructure is to realign and expand our ongoing publishing business of overseas games targeted to the highly growing domestic market.
Blue Quest retains the publishing licenses of the games developed overseas including "Atlantis Saga", "Astro Garden" and "Warzone". We plan to obtain new licenses of European and North American popular game titles in a timely manner and focus on acquiring and expanding customers in the Japanese market for the time being.
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Home » Patients and Visitors » Visitation Policy
Visitors must be healthy (no cough, fever, or flu-like symptoms). Notice of patient visitation rights are provided to the patient and, when possible, family members of patients.
Requirements For All Visitors:
All visitors must wear a mask that covers their mouth and nose at all times. Visitors are encouraged to bring their own mask. Visitors in need of a surgical mask may ask a staff member at a Nursing Station or Check-In/Registration Desk. Visitors refusing to wear a mask or failure to wear the mask appropriately may be denied visitation.
Visitors must wear a visitor badge at all times. Visitor badges are provided at entrance screening locations.
Visitors must be healthy and 12 or older.
Non-COVID -19 Patients:
Inpatients will be allowed one visitor at a time. The visitors should remain in the patient room the duration of their visit. Visitors may switch during the same day.
a) Exception – OB Labor and Delivery will allow three visitors per patient.
b) Exception – Patients under the age of 18 may have both parents visit.
c) Visitors should check in and out at one of the screening stations.
Surgical and outpatient diagnostic patients will be allowed one visitor to accompany them.
a) Patients under the age of 18 may have both parents accompany them.
b) The caregiver/responsible person may remain in the surgical waiting area until the patient is ready for discharge to home, or the surgeon has completed necessary condition update discussions.
Waiting areas will not be utilized for multiple family members or visitors. Visitor switching off (as permitted by the policy) must transition outside the facility.
COVID-19 or Patients suspected of COVID 19:
COVID positive or symptomatic suspected COVID patients may have compassionate care visits to include, but are not limited to, the following:
a) End-of-life situations.
b) A patient who was living with his or her family before recently being admitted to the facility is struggling with the change in environment and lack of family support.
c) A patient who is grieving after a friend or family member recently passed away.
d) A patient who needs cueing and encouragement with eating or drinking, previously provided by family or caregivers, is experiencing weight loss or dehydration.
e) A patient, who used to talk and interact with others, is experiencing emotional distress, seldom speaking, or crying more frequently when the patient had rarely cried in the past.
f) For OB COVID-19 patients, the support person will be allowed to be present to help provide for social distancing for the infant.
g) Patients under the age of 18 may have a parents present.
For patients (COVID and Non-COVID) in which death is reasonably anticipated within 24-48 hours, immediate family/POA/support person, up to two (2), will be allowed at the patient bedside at a time.
The visitor(s) should understand the risks associated with visitation.
COVID patient visitors must don droplet precaution Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that includes mask, face shield, gloves, and gown.
Visitors that do not follow appropriate PPE guidelines will not be allowed to visit.
No visitation will be permitted during high-risk procedures.
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Q: jQuery : MultiLevel Cascading Dynamic Dropdown - Issue with Add & Delete items between dependant dropdowns I have the below cascading dropdown,when a continent gets selected, the corresponding country of that continent should get loaded to its dependant dropdown. Also if a continent get removed, the corresponding country from the dependant dropdown get removed. This will be applicable for country and its dependant dropdown City as well.
This image will explain the desired output

(function(){

  jQuery(document).ready(function()
  {
    var DropData1 = [{
         "ContinentId":1,
         "ContinentName":"North America",
         "Country":[
              { "CountryId":"1",
                 "CountryName":"USA",
                  "City":[
                           {
                             "CityId":1,
                             "CityName":"Atlanta"
                            },
                            {
                              "CityId":2,
                              "CityName":"NewYork"
                             },
                             {
                               "CityId":3,
                               "CityName":"Washington"
                              },
                              {
                                 "CityId":4,
                                 "CityName":"Cincinnati"
                               },
                               {
                                  "CityId":5,
                                   "CityName":"Denver"
                                },
                                {
                                    "CityId":6,
                                    "CityName":"SFO"
                                }                                                          ]
                   },
                   {       "CountryId":2,
                           "CountryName":"Canada",
                           "City":[
                                  {
                                    "CityId":1,
                                    "CityName":"Tornoto"
                                    }]
                    },

                    {      "CountryId":3,
                              "CountryName":"Mexico"
                   },

                          { "CountryId":4,
                             "CountryName":"Greenland"                                     }

                         ]
                       },

                       {
                         "ContinentId":2,
                          "ContinentName":"Asia",
                        },
                        {
                         "ContinentId":3,
                          "ContinentName":"Australia",
                        },

                        {
                         "ContinentId":4,
                          "ContinentName":"Africa",
                        },
                        {
                         "ContinentId":5,
                          "ContinentName":"Europe",
                        }

                     ],
    DropData2 = [],
    DropData3 = [],
    addRemoveCountryDropdown ='';
    addRemoveCityDropdown ='';

    $.each(DropData1,function(index,obj)
    {
      $('<option>').val(index+1).text(obj.ContinentName).appendTo('#ContinentLeft');
    });

    $("#btnAddContRight").click(function(e)
    {
      e.preventDefault();
      $("#ContinentLeft option:selected").each(function()
       {
         $("#ContinentRight").append($('<option>').val($(this).val()).text($(this).text()));
         $(this).remove();
      });

      $("#btnRemoveContRight").removeClass("disabled");
      addRemoveCountryDropdown();
    });

    $("#btnRemoveContRight").click(function(e)
    {
      e.preventDefault();
      $("#ContinentRight option:selected").each(function()
       {
         $("#ContinentLeft").append($('<option>').val($(this).val()).text($(this).text()));
         $(this).remove();

         var options = $("#ContinentLeft option");
          options.detach().sort(function(a,b)
          {
             var aValue = $(a).val();
             var bValue = $(b).val();
             return aValue - bValue;
          });
         options.appendTo("#ContinentLeft");

         if(!$("#ContinentRight").has('option').length){
          $("#btnRemoveContRight").addClass("disabled");
          $("CountryLeft").find("option").remove();
          $("CountryRight").find("option").remove();
          $("CityLeft").find("option").remove();
          $("CityRight").find("option").remove();
         }
         addRemoveCountryDropdown();
         });
     });

   addRemoveCountryDropdown = function() {
    $("#CountryLeft").find("option").remove();
    $("#ContinentRight option").each(function()
    {
      var $this = $(this);

      $.each(DropData1,function(index,obj)
      {
        if(obj.ContinentId === parseInt($this.val()) && obj.Country !== undefined) {

          if(!DropData2.length)
          {
            DropData2 = obj.Country;
          } else {
             $.each(obj.Country, function(index,obj)
             {
               if($.inArray(obj,DropData2)==-1){
                  DropData2.push(obj);
               }
             });
          }

          $.each(DropData2,function(index,obj)
          {
            if(!$("#CountryLeft").has('option').length) {
              $("<option>").val(obj.ContinentId).text(obj.ContinentName).appendTo("#CountryLeft");
            } else {
              if(!$("CountryLeft option:contains("+ obj.ContinentName + ")").length){
          $("<option>").val(obj.ContinentId).text(obj.ContinentName).appendTo("#CountryLeft");
              }
            }
            });
          }

        });
      });

    };

    addRemoveCityDropdown = function() {
    $("#CityLeft").find("option").remove();
    $("#CountryRight option").each(function()
    {
      var $this = $(this);

      $.each(DropData2,function(index,obj)
      {
        if(obj.ContinentId == parseInt($this.val()) && obj.Country !== undefined) {

          if(!DropData3.length)
          {
            DropData3 = obj.Country;
          } else {
             $.each(obj.Country, function(index,obj)
             {
               if($.inArray(obj,DropData3)==-1){
                  DropData3.push(obj);
               }
             });
          }

          $.each(DropData3,function(index,obj)
          {
            if(!$("#CityLeft").has('option').length) {
              $("<option>").val(obj.ContinentId).text(obj.ContinentName).appendTo("#CityLeft");
            } else {
              if(!$("CityLeft option:contains("+ obj.ContinentName + ")").length){
                   $("<option>").val(obj.ContinentId).text(obj.ContinentName).appendTo("#CityLeft");
               }
             }
           });
          }
       });
    });

$("#btnAddCountryRight").click(function(e)
{
  e.preventDefault();
  $("#CountryLeft option:selected").each(function()
  {
    $("#CountryRight").append($('<option>').val($(this).val()).text($(this).text()));
    $(this).remove();
  });
  $("#btnRemoveConuntryRight").removeClass("disabled");
  addRemoveCityDropdown();
});

$("btnRemoveConuntryRight").click(function(e)
{
   e.preventDefault();
   $("#CountryRight option:selected").each(function()
  {
    $("CountryLeft").append($('<option>').val($(this).val()).text($(this).text()));
    $(this).remove();

    var options = $("#CountryLeft option");
    options.detach().sort(function(a,b)
    {
      return a.text === b.text ? 0 : a.text < b.text ? -1 : 1;
    });
    options.appendTo("#CountryLeft");

    if(!$("CountryRight").has('option').length) {
      $("#btnRemoveConuntryRight").addClass("disabled");
      $("#CityLeft").find("option").remove();
      $("#CityRight").find("option").remove();
    }
    addRemoveCityDropdown();

    });
  });

 $("btnAddCityRight").click(function(e)
 {
   e.preventDefault();
   $("#CityLeft option:selected").each(function()
   {
     $("#CityLeft").append($('<option>').val($(this).val()).text($(this).text()));
     $(this).remove();

   });

   $("#btnRemoveCityRight").click(function(e)
   {
     e.preventDefault();
     $("#CityRight option:selected").each(function(){
       $("#CityLeft").append($('<option>').val($(this).val()).text($(this).text()));

       var options = $("#CityLeft option");
      options.detach().sort(function(a,b)
      {
        var aValue = $(a).val();
         var bValue =$(b).val();
        return aValue -bValue;

    });
    options.appendTo("#CityLeft");

    if(!$("CityRight").has('option').length)
    {
      $("#btnRemoveCityRight").addClass("disabled");
    }
  });
});

});

};

});
}());

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-1q8mTJOASx8j1Au+a5WDVnPi2lkFfwwEAa8hDDdjZlpLegxhjVME1fgjWPGmkzs7" crossorigin="anonymous">

    Continent

        <select class="form-control" id="ContinentLeft" multiple="multiple" style="height:125px">
        </select>

          <button type="button" id="btnAddContRight" class="btn btn-default center-block btn-block">Add </button>

          <button type="button" id="btnRemoveContRight" class="btn btn-default center-block btn-block">
         Remove </button>

        <select class="form-control" id="ContinentRight" multiple="multiple" style="height:125px">
        </select>

    Country

        <select class="form-control" id="CountryLeft" multiple="multiple" style="height:125px">
        </select>

          <button type="button" id="btnAddCountryRight" class="btn btn-default center-block btn-block">Add </button>

          <button type="button" id="btnRemoveConuntryRight" class="btn btn-default center-block btn-block">
         Remove </button>

        <select class="form-control" id="CountryRight" multiple="multiple" style="height:125px">
        </select>

    City

        <select class="form-control" id="CityLeft" multiple="multiple" style="height:125px">
        </select>

          <button type="button" id="btnAddCityRight" class="btn btn-default center-block btn-block">Add </button>

          <button type="button" id="btnRemoveCityRight" class="btn btn-default center-block btn-block">
         Remove </button>

        <select class="form-control" id="CityRight" multiple="multiple" style="height:125px">
        </select>

i have created a jsfiddle if you would like to work on the fiddle

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Q: Creating triple for http://schema.org/workLocation I am creating a Turtle file which would contain triples for a particular individual of type schema:Person.
I am stuck in defining triples for the person's schema:workLocation.  According to the documentation, the range of schema:workLocation includes schema:Place, and a place can have an schema:address which should have type schema:PostalAddress. I've created the following:
@prefix schema: <http://schema.org/> .
<http://www.example.com/ns/person/1> a schema:Person ;
                                     schema:givenName "XXX" ;
                                     schema:familyName "XXXX" ;
                                     schema:addressCountry "USA" .

Is this the right way of describing an address? How do I specify the person's work location?

A: Let's work triple by triple, and then we can consider whether there are ways to clean up the presentation.  First, you started with the prefix declaration and identifying a resource with type person:
@prefix schema: <http://schema.org/> .
@prefix : <http://stackoverflow.com/q/24891549/1281433/> .

:person1 a schema:Person .

Next, you want to add a work location.  Well, the work location is going to be a thing, and will have either type Place or ContactPoint.  Lets assume it's a place.  Then we add:
:person1 schema:workLocation :place62 .
:place62 a schema:Place .

Now the place can be related to a PostalAddress by the schema:address property:
:place62 schema:address :address89 .
:address89 a schema:PostalAddress .

Now, there are lots of properties we might use to describe a PostalAddress.  In this case, we might have something like (using the sample values from that page):
:address89 schema:addressLocality "Mountain View" .
:address89 schema:addressRegion "CA" .
:address89 schema:postalCode "94043" .
:address89 schema:streetAddress "1600 Amphitheathre Pkwy" .

Now a postal address also works with properties from ContactPoint, so you might want some of those, too, but you can define those in the same way.  So now you have this data:
@prefix schema: <http://schema.org/> .
@prefix : <http://stackoverflow.com/q/24891549/1281433/> .

:person1 a schema:Person .
:person1 schema:workLocation :place62 .
:place62 a schema:Place .
:place62 schema:address :address89 .
:address89 a schema:PostalAddress .
:address89 schema:addressLocality "Mountain View" .
:address89 schema:addressRegion "CA" .
:address89 schema:postalCode "94043" .
:address89 schema:streetAddress "1600 Amphitheathre Pkwy" .

Unless you're going to reuse the place and address (which you might, if you're describing a bunch of People at the same location), you probably can use blank nodes instead of URI nodes.  Doing that, and using some of the syntactic sugar that Turtle provides, you end up with:
@prefix schema: <http://schema.org/> .
@prefix : <http://stackoverflow.com/q/24891549/1281433/> .

:person1 a schema:Person ;
         schema:workLocation [ a schema:Place ;
                               schema:address [ a schema:PostalAddress ;
                                                schema:addressLocality "Mountain View" ;
                                                schema:addressRegion "CA" ;
                                                schema:postalCode "94043" ;
                                                schema:streetAddress "1600 Amphitheathre Pkwy" ] ] .


Withdrawal From Continuous Circulation is an album released by German Stoner/ Sludge Metal band The Wiring. With seven tracks – IZ, Python, The Blocking, Eyes, Unearthed, Warped Apparition and Belltower General – what we have here is a very good album, that, although seems formulaic and generic at first, is interesting. True to the principles of the genre, Withdrawal From Continuous Circulation is a loyal and remarkable exemplar of Sludge Metal, that certainly can please a lot of enthusiasts of the genre.
Since Sludge Metal is a very noisy genre, and the very stilted sound can be tiresome for people who dislike this type of music, obviously the record is destined to a specific audience. But it has everything in full and easy disposition to conform to standards, and be likable to ardent enthusiasts. Awesome guitars, blistered rhythms, hazardous hysterical grievances compelled to a dirty wall of blasted notes, and an intense savage sound scrutinizes a traditional epic of the genre. While I personally couldn't point it out remarkable moments anywhere in the album, it has undeniable qualities, especially if you feel the sound, inserted in the righteous context.
While there is a certain lack of innovation, or even the development of a personal style, Withdrawal From Continuous Circulation remains authentic to the principles of Sludge Metal. Slow harmonies collide with the sluggish wild beast animal sounds that easily revolves the entire time, and you feel consumed by it, in the presence of mindfully stricken guitar doses of anarchy, and the very well developed dedication to the process of creating and performing these songs.
I cannot say that this is a great, or even remarkable album, but it certainly has a solid and coherent panel of qualities for the Sludge Metal scene to be proud of. Like most bands of the genre, they probably cause a lot more impact in live performances, since, in an album, the genre naturally sounds more ecstatic and uniform. Nonetheless, if you listen to this album, be sure you really like the genre. It is not for beginners, nor amateurs, even less easy listeners. Certainly the strong guitar lines are the most audacious and fearless qualities the album has, holding the entire musical vision of the work in a very cohesive panoramic artistry. But sadly, sometimes, it becomes a little fragile and monotonous. But if you like a wild, fully intoxicated, exasperating and filthy Sludge Metal record, you can listen to Withdrawal From Continuous Circulation with no fear. But you have been warned: this is not an album for weak, fragile listeners, or beginners. This is for the experienced sludge community, exclusively.


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BuzzFeed acquires HuffPost as digital media companies join forces
The merger follows other similar partnerships in the media industry as companies such as Vice Media, which acquired Refinery29 in a $400 million deal.
Jonah Peretti, Buzzfeed CEO, and co-founder of The Huffington Post, at Buzzfeed's New York Headquarters on Dec. 14, 2018.Nicholas Hunt / Getty Images file
Nov. 19, 2020, 7:51 PM UTC
By Ahiza García-Hodges
Digital culture and news companyBuzzFeed has agreed to buy HuffPost from Verizon Media, the companies announced Thursday, a move that combines two of the internet's largest consumer media properties.
Verizon will also make an investment and become a minority shareholder in BuzzFeed, and the deal will see the two companies partner on shopping experiences for consumers, content syndication across each other's platforms and ad products. BuzzFeed paid for HuffPost with company shares, the value of which was not disclosed.
The merger follows other similar partnerships in the media industry as companies such as Vice Media, which acquired Refinery29 in a $400 million deal, and Vox Media, which acquired New York Media, look to grow and evolve in the changing digital landscape. Verizon Media acquired HuffPost when it bought AOL for a reported $4.4 billion in 2015.
NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News, is an investor in BuzzFeed.
The merged company will be run by Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed's co-founder and CEO, who is also one of the co-founders of the original HuffPost site, originally called The Huffington Post. An editor-in-chief will be brought on to head HuffPost, which will be run as its own brand and separate site.
"I still vividly remember the night we launched HuffPost and the excitement of growing it into a major news outlet during those early years," Peretti said in an internal email to BuzzFeed staff, obtained by NBC News. "But we aren't buying HuffPost because of its illustrious past or my personal connection; we pursued this opportunity because we are excited about the future of HuffPost and all the potential it has to continue to define the media landscape for years to come."
On Thursday, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington tweeted that she was "so happy" to see the company joining forces with BuzzFeed 15 years after Peretti helped found it. "Such exciting news and looking forward to all that's to come," she said.
The deal combines two of the most successful digital media companies from different eras. HuffPost emerged as one of the first successful digital media outlets of the 2000s. BuzzFeed, launched in 2006, became the dominant digital media operation years later from a surge of readers who came primarily through social media platforms, especially Facebook.
While each was able to amass a sizable audience and attract millions of dollars in private investment, both struggled to turn a profit. Facebook and Google have remained the primary destination for digital advertising spending, with most digital media websites facing similar challenges as BuzzFeed and HuffPost.
Peretti said that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital and benefited digital-first companies and that BuzzFeed hopes this deal will enable it to "be the formidable leader in our space." He told staffers more details would be discussed at the company's global all-hands meeting Thursday.
Ahiza García-Hodges
Ahiza García-Hodges covers the intersection of media, tech, sports and business.


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